Once again join us on a journey back
to an “Age of Aces” as “Battling” Mord Grogan burns through
the tortured skies of pre-WWII China.
Grogan, an American pilot, commands the all-Chinese
“Dragon Squadron” in their battle against the invading Japanese
along with his three valiant flight commanders: Monty St.
John, the lanky Limey; slender Hank Goyen, the dapper Frog;
and last but not least, the imperturbable Ah Im, Grogan’s
boyhood chum of old Nanking days, now premier olive-toned
ace of the Dragon clan. Never before has the struggle been
so fierce or the danger of Oriental treachery so great!
WWI pilot Robert M. Burtt wrote the fourteen
Battling Grogan stories in the early 1930’s for
Flying Aces Magazine before becoming well known as
the co-creator and writer of aviation-themed radio serials
like The Air Adventures of Jimmy Allen, Captain
Midnight, Hop Harrigan and Sky King.
Stories include:
“Against The Rising Sun” – Flying Aces,
May 1932
“The Squadron of Skeletons” – Flying Aces,
June 1932
“The Tartar Thunderbolt” – Flying Aces,
October 1932
“The Dragon’s Brood” – Flying Aces, February
1933
“Shanghai Hawks” – Flying Aces, March 1933
“Minions of the Mikado” – Flying Aces, June 1933
“Eagles of the East” – Flying Aces, July 1933
“The Dragon’s Decoy” – Flying Aces, September
1933
“Ming Menace” – Flying Aces, November 1933
“Death from The Rising Sun” – Flying Aces,
December 1933
“The Bat Brood” – Flying Aces, January 1934
“Traitor Truce” – Flying Aces, February 1934
“Hawks of Nippon” – Flying Aces, May 1934
“Mace of The Mikado” – Flying Aces, September
1934
$16.99 | 6″x9″ trade paperback | 470pp | ISBN:978-1-937590-00-0
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Softcover
edition now available!
Hardcover and ebook editions to follow in 2014!
When a brazen adventuress
attempts to hire Doc Savage for a secret operation––but won't tell him
why––it lights the fuse on one of the most explosive exploits ever to
involve the Man of Bronze.
Who is Hornetta Hale? Why does she want to rent Doc’s submarine?
And who is so desperate to eliminate her that they all but destroy
Doc Savage's skyscraper headquarters in the process? From Manhattan
Island to the Caribbean Sea, Doc and his fighting men chase the
most violent gang of criminals they have ever encountered. Or are
they merely criminals?
Hornetta Hale was created by Lester
Dent for a proposed Doc Savage newspaper strip in 1939, and has
never appeared anywhere before.
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Softcover
edition now available!
Hardcover and ebook editions to follow in 2014!
The world believed
that aviator Tom Franklin was dead. Years before, he had set out on a
pioneering transpacific flight alone—and vanished!
When he returned, as it from the grave,
Franklin and a mysterious woman flew a battered plane that had been repaired
with plates of pure gold. Desperately seeking the help of Doc Savage,
the mighty Man of Bronze, Franklin and his curvaceous charge fall
into the clutches of diamond smuggler Blackbird Hinton and his cutthroat
crew—but not before the bronze adventurer hears of their plight.
From Manhattan to Cape Town ensues a quest
as dangerous as any in recorded history. One that will embroil the compassionate
yet hard-fisted Doc Savage and his resourceful men in a raging struggle
for control of one of history’s most closely guarded mysteries.
The lost secret of Python
Isle!
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Altus
Press
The Adventures of Manning Draco Volume 1
Now available!
Once Upon a
Star: The Adventures of Manning Draco, Volume 1
by Kendell Foster Crossen
In four zany episodes, the unflappable detective Manning Draco
travels the 35th-century galaxy to tackle a variety of insurance
frauds, scams, and con men. In the process, he encounters bizarre-looking
aliens from different planets, woos the most alluring humanoid
females, is almost forced to wed a crocodilian princess, competes
in futuristic games, and finally overcomes his rivals to win the
affection of the fairest damsel in all of outer space.
Three further adventures in the Manning Draco series await the reader
of volume 2, Whistle Stop in Space.
Kendell Foster Crossen, a mainstay of the science fiction pulps in
the 1950s, also published over forty-five detective and spy novels
under a variety of pseudonyms, including M.E. Chaber, Christopher
Monig, Richard Foster, and others.
226 pages | $14.95 softcover | also
available in hardcover and ebook format
Altus
Press
The Adventures of Manning Draco Volume 2
Coming very soon!
Whistle Stop in Space: Further Adventures of Manning Draco, Volume
2
by Kendell Foster Crossen
Great Formalhaut! Manning Draco is back! In Once Upon a Star, the
interstellar insurance detective tackled a variety of weird con
men and scammers throughout the 35th-century Galactic Federation.
Now he returns in three further adventures, as a government agent
sent to foil an anti-Federationist plot. The concluding story features
a spoof of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, and reveals how Manning became
the only Terran to develop a secondary mind shield against the telepathic
powers of other races in the Federation.
Kendell Foster Crossen, a mainstay of the science fiction pulps in
the 1950s, also published over forty-five detective and spy novels
under a variety of pseudonyms, including M.E. Chaber, Christopher
Monig, Richard Foster, and others.
200 pages | $12.95 softcover | also
available in hardcover and ebook format
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Andy McDermott: THE SHADOW PROTOCOL
- Coming January 28!
NO ONE CAN KNOW HIM. NO ONE SHOULD
TRUST HIM. AND AMERICA WON’T SURVIVE WITHOUT HIM.
Adam Gray is a cipher, a disciplined loner conditioned not to betray
a single emotion. Part of an elite team spearheaded by a brilliant
neuroscientist, Gray is a covert agent armed with PERSONA, a device
that allows him to copy the brain patterns of the terrorists and operatives
he meets in the field. For twenty-four hours he can recall their memories.
He can know every detail of their plans. He can be America’s worst enemy—before
he’s back to being Adam Gray again.
Now Gray and his team are racing to stop a plot to release a radioactive
isotope that could kill millions. And in a nerve-racking clandestine
meeting, Gray senses that his cover is cracked and that the mission—not
to mention his life—may be in grave danger. But as they fight this
violent conspiracy around the globe, another threat has emerged.
This one has the perfect cover, the most unlikely double agent, and
the most terrifying power of all. For a beautiful young scientist
has discovered an unforeseen weakness in PERSONA: Adam Gray’s own past.
Mass Market Paperback: 544 pages
Publisher: Dell
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THE BLACK BAT #8 - Arriving in comic shops January 8!
Writer: Brian Buccellato
Art:Ronan Cliquet
Cover Artist(s): Jae Lee, Billy Tan, Ardian Syaf
The fallout from recent events changes the dynamic between
Carol, the Black Bat, and the shadow organization behind
his creation. Black Bat wrestles with the choices he has
made, and how far he is willing to go to get justice. Are the
strings attached to his redemption worth the price?
Full Color, 32 pages,
$3.99
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Black Coat Press - Now available!
"Belfort," said the scientist, after a few passes, "what
have you been doing since you died?" "In truth, my dear chap," the
dead man replied, "I've been obliged to follow you everywhere you
went."
Imbued with a sense of light-hearted cynicism, literary crictic Jules
Janin (1804-1874) penned a vast number of eccentric and sometimes
improvised fantastic and horror stories, now mostly forgotten. This
first-ever American collection gathers a sampler of his unusual talent,
as exemplified by the eponymous tale about a dead man kept alive by
magnetism, published several months before Poe's "The Facts in the
Case of M. Valdemar" (1845).
Other tales gathered here include fake folk legends, paradoxical ghost
stories in the vein of ETA Hoffmann, and surreal reflections on
the supernatural nature of music. "Janin was probably closer to Poe
in spirit, although his ambition took him in a different direction."
Brian Stableford.
Brian M. Stableford has been a professional writer since 1965. He
has published more than 60 science fiction and fantasy novels, as
well as several authoritative non-fiction books. He is also translating
the works of Paul Féval and other French writers of the fantastique
for Black Coat Press.
US $22.95 / GBP £14.99
5x8 trade paperback, 276 pages
Flax is a man of superhuman genius. Every time I've had
the opportunity to spend an hour with him, I've retained a unique impression:
that of finding myself in the presence of a sort of demigod, whose
brain gives birth to ideas so elevated that they far surpass the understanding
of the most learned men.
On 25 June 1906, the readers of the daily newspaper LE MATIN discovered
this terrifying headline:
"SOMEONE IS STEALING CHILDREN IN PARIS! EVERY DAY! On the Grands Boulevards
and quiet residential streets! Children have disappeared Boulevard
Montmartre, Rue Caumartin, Rue Royale, Rue Racine, Avenue Niel, Passage
des Panoramas, Cité Rougemont. In full daylight, with diabolical
cunning and monstrous audacity! Under the very eyes of their mothers!
This is not fiction, a horror tale designed to scare our readers, but
the terrifying truth!"
The police being incapable of finding the perpetrators, the French
Government appoints a special scientific commission to investigate.
Its leader is the notorious German doctor Professor Flax. But is he really
the benefactor he claims to be?
Louis Forest (1872-1933) was a journalist for various Parisian newspsapers,
including Le Matin, for which he wrote this ground-breaking serial
about the artificial creation of supermen through radium-based brain
surgery.
Brian M. Stableford has been a professional writer since 1965. He
has published more than 60 science fiction and fantasy novels, as
well as several authoritative non-fiction books. He is also translating
the works of Paul Féval and other French writers of the fantastique
for Black Coat Press.
US $26.95 / GBP £18.99
6x9 trade paperback, 380 pages
It seems impossible that a woman could be capable of consecrating
herself to a profession tied to such terrible dangers and which requires
self-control, audacity, extreme resolution joined to shrewdness,
and cleverness. Nevertheless a woman detective lives and works today
in the United States of America, a woman who has been well-known for
years for her preeminent abilities in the career she has chosen, and
who has brought about numerous successes, each one more marvelous
than the next.
Daughter of a detective, Ethel King takes up her father's career in
order to avenge his death, as well as that of her fiancé, both
brought down the same day by an assassin's bullet. King, like Miss Boston
and Therese Arnaud, is an extraordinary woman,well ahead of her time.
Although she practices a masculine profession, she is seductive and
charming, moves comfortably in high society, and dresses elegantly.
These characteristics hide her incisiveness, daring, strength, and
accuracy with a gun. She solves cases involving murders, kidnappings,
forgeries and extortions. She brings the guilty to justice, earns a satisfactory
living and leads a comfortable life in Garden Street, Philadelphia.
There were only two women sleuths in French popular literature before
the mid-20th century. The first, Miss Boston, was created by Antonin
Reschal and appeared in 1908-1909. Jean Petithuguenin (1878-1939)
wrote the second, Ethel King, shortly thereafter (1911-1914). This professor
at the Faculty of Sciences was the official translator of the Nick
Carter series. Ethel King ran for more than 100 bi-weekly issues in
France, then was continued in Germany by other authors.
Edited by Paul Wessels with the generous contribution of Daniel Auliac.
US $20.95 / GBP £12.99
6x9 trade paperback, 236 pages
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Black Dog Books - Now available!
Black Dog Books presents the first published collection
of the weird fantasy stories of Philip M. Fisher, Jr. Discover
the bizarre happenings in these eleven unforgettable tales.
Encounter a strange race of Sargasso Sea-like weed men;
ship out on a vessel that sails into a weird magnetic fog and
electrical dampening zone; battle against a madman that controls
all light and darkness; journey by dirigible to the North Pole to
investigate strange happenings and more!
Included are:
• The Demise of Professor Manried
• Queer
• The Strange Case of Lemuel Jenkins
• The Ship of Silent Men (novelette)
• The Master in Black (novelette)
• Into His Work
• Worlds Within Worlds (short novel)
• Lights
•The Devil of the Western Sea (novelette)
• Fungus Isle (novelette)
• Beyond the Pole (novelette)
With an introduction by Stefan Dziemianowicz.
Selected and edited by Gene Christie.
Cover design by Tom Roberts.
$24.95 US / Trade paperback / 322 pages
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A new title is now available, Terror, Inc. by Lester Dent.
• When a series of gruesome corpses is discovered entombed
in its freshly-paved streets, a city is cloaked in a bloody shroud
of terror . . .
• All Hollywood lives in dread as The Spark, a mysterious
super-villain, launches a killing spree using inexplicable methods
. . .
• A metropolis is invaded by an unstoppable invisible horde
of ruthless killers bent on domination . . .
These are but some of the weird mysteries encountered in TERROR,
INC.
Fear-wrapped tales of detection from the author of Doc Savage!
Included are:
• Terror, Inc.
• The Devil's Cargo
• The Invisible Horde
• The Whistling Death
• The Cavern of Heads
• Murder Street
Volume 5 of the Lester Dent Library.
With an introduction by historian Will Murray.
Don't forget to check out the other Lester Dent collections from
Black Dog Books, Dead Men's Bones, The Skull Squadron, Hell's
Hoofprint's, and Fists of Fury.
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Black Dog Books - Now available!
The West has been transformed into a bloody battleground
between the Rocky Mountain Fur Company and the American Fur
Company, rival factions vying with black powder and cold steel for
trapping rights and trade rights with the Native Americans.
The mighty rivers have become a highway for that unique breed,
the Mountain Men, from the Rocky Mountains across the Great Plains,
downriver to St. Louis, where they sell their precious pelts.
Fleeing the authorities after killing a man, restless greenhorn
Ralph Lander departs St. Louis under cover of night, hoping
to join the Bridger trapping expedition going upriver. Looking
to redeem himself while pursuing excitement and his fortune, Lander
soon discovers there is no flight from the long arm of justice,
no sanctuary when surrounded by hostiles after his own hide!
With an introduction by Robert J. Randisi (Gunsmith, Mountain Jack
Pike series).
Cover art by Paul Strayer.
Cover design by Tom Roberts.
NOTE: This edition is authorized by the Hugh Pendexter Literary
Trust.
Hugh Pendexter (1875-1940) began
his career as a newspaper man but soon started selling short humorous
tales in 1904. Within a few years he moved into historical dramas
and Westerns. For the next three decades his work became a mainstay
of the legendary magazine, Adventure, chronicling Colonial life or
the American frontier.
Noted for his dedication to research and historical accuracy,
Hugh Pendexter authored more than seventy-five novels of period
fiction.
ISBN: 978-1-884449-44-4
Price: Trade paperback / 160 pages / Price: $14.95 US
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Black Dog Books - Now available!
The thunder of roaring engines and unleashed Lewis
guns fill the sky above the South China Sea as Captains Ben Cowan
and Luke Lance dive into a series of investigations as flying detectives
in these three pulse-pounding air adventure novels.
Isle of Lost Wings
"Five must die!" came the eerie voice over the shortwave.
When the Spinthrift is discovered adrift and abandoned, K.O. Pike
dispatches his top operative, Ben Cowan, to investigate the disappearance
of the yacht's millionaire owner and a killer sky-trail beckons
from Borneo to Singapore!
Flying Freebooters
A shadowy plane shoots down Luke Lance over the ancient growth
jungles of Malaysia. The Straits Agency, attempting to recover
their lost pilot, encounters a group of deadly sky pirates and
smugglers that threatens the sovereignty of peaceful nations along
an imperiled coast!
Fighting Wings
After the son of the Rajah of Baharu is kidnapped, the Straits
Agency detectives are called on to locate the youth. In the process
Luke Lance unearths the mysterious White Mask and an ancient
enemy returned from the past seeking vengeance!
FIRST BOOK PUBLICATION
With an introduction by award-winning author Evan Lewis.
Cover art by George Rozen.
ISBN: 978-1-884449-45-1
Price: Trade paperback / 214 pages / Price: $19.95 US
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Black Mask / MysteriousPress.com
/ Open Road Media
Now
available!
In the midst of a heavy snowstorm, Barney
Chance encounters his old friend Guy Farrish, who gives him a small package
to be delivered to Guy’s former fiancée. When Barney finds Guy
murdered, he begins to doubt everything he knew about his friend. But
before Barney can even call the authorities, a peculiar police captain
shows up on the scene to investigate. With the contents of the package
still a mystery, Barney finds himself delving deep into his late friend’s
life, and uncovering family secrets he had never suspected.
With an ever-growing group of suspects, Barney realizes that
any number of people could have wanted Guy dead. What unfolds is the
story of a man trying to leave a tarnished past behind him, and the
killer willing to go to murderous lengths for an inheritance.
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Black Mask / MysteriousPress.com
/ Open Road Media
Now
available!
The Paul Cain Omnibus (eBook
and paperback)
Fifteen stories
and one novel—hard-boiled classics by an undisputed master
Following gangsters, blackmailers, and gunmen through the underbelly
of 1930s America on their journeys to do dark deeds, Paul Cain’s
stories are classics of his genre. The protagonists of ambiguous
morality who populate Cain’s work are portrayed with a cinematic flair
for the grim hardness of their world. Fast One, Cain’s only novel,
was originally serialized in Black Mask in the 1930s. It introduces
us to Gerry Kells, a hard-nosed criminal who still holds fast to his
humanity in a Los Angeles that’s crooked to the core.
This collection presents Cain’s classic crime writing to a contemporary
audience.
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Blood 'N' Thunder /
Murania Press
The Blood 'N' Thunder #38 - Summer 2013
Now shipping!
This issue’s outstanding feature is a lengthy
excerpt from Nathan Madison’s recently published
book, Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic
Books, 1920-1960. In this richly detailed, extensively illustrated
piece Nathan explores “Yellow Peril” fiction from the pulps.
His exhaustive study complements Bill Maynard’s celebration
of Fu Manchu’s centennial from our last issue.
Another book published earlier this year, Will Murray’s
Skull Island, pitted Doc Savage against King
Kong and aroused much interest not only among the Bronze
Man’s fans in general but devotees of Philip José
Farmer’s Wold Newton Universe in particular. BnT contributor
and Wold Newton adherent Rick Lai examines Skull Island and
catalogs its deviations from the Universe in an unusually
absorbing work of scholarship. In a separate piece Will
responds to critics of his approach. Let it never be said
that BnT refuses to present both sides of a story!
Will’s second contribution to BnT #38 is an 80th Anniversary
hat-tip to the long-running hero pulp G-8 and His
Battle Aces, adventures from which a re now being
offered in audiobook form by Radio Archives. He covers
a hitherto overlooked attempt by Popular Publications
editors to gauge reader interest in a proposed shift
of emphasis for the magazine.
This summer marked another important anniversary in
American pop culture: Superman debuted 75 years
ago in the first issue of Action Comics. Mike
Bifulco, author of The Original Superman on Television
(a definitive guide now in its third edition), weighs
in on the recent theatrical release Man of Steel
and reflects on the enduring popularity of the TV series starring
George Reeves.
This time around our “Tricks of the Trade” department
boasts a particularly comprehensive installment
by long-time pulp editor and science-fiction specialist
Robert A. W. “Doc” Lowndes. Originally written for
a 1949 writers’ magazine, this 6400-word treatise is perhaps
the most informative piece of its type we’ve published
to date. It provides the clearest look yet at how pulp editors
appraised the manuscripts they received by the thousands
every year.
BnT #38 also reprints two fascinating short stories
culled from vintage pulp magazines. James B. Connelly’s
“The Last Passenger,” from an early 1913 issue
of The Popular Magazine, may well have been the first work
of mass-market fiction inspired by the Titanic tragedy. “The
Tenth Man,” from a 1922 issue of Adventure, is a taut
tale of African intrigue by the unjustly forgotten Robert
Simpson.
Subscriber copies will begin shipping shortly after
Labor Day. To those of you who either aren’t
BnT subscribers or have let your subscriptions lapse, remember
that signing up for a year earns you a 20-percent discount
on the recently published Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide
to Pulp Fiction. There’s a special page on the Murania Press
website that allows you to do just that.
Individual
copies of Blood ‘n’ Thunder #38 can be had for $11.95 plus
shipping from the Murania Press site as soon as
they are available.
The cost of a one-year, four-issue subscription
is $40, which represents a considerable savings.
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SPECIAL
SALE TIED TO BLOOD
'N' THUNDER SUBSCRIPTIONS
Don't miss out! This offer expires January 5, 2014
at 11:59 PM!
The long-awaited Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to
Pulp Fiction, many months in preparation, is now
available from Murania Press.
A greatly revised and expanded version of 2007’s
Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to Collecting Pulps,
this massive new book has been positioned as more
of a reference work than a mere manual for hobbyists. It’s
a complete history of the pulp magazine (told in more
detail than ever attempted by a single author)
wrapped up in one-volume. Its 2007 predecessor had 226 pages
and close to 400 pulp-cover reproductions. The new Guide
to Pulp Fiction has 414 pages and 700 cover repros,
along with a smattering of original cover paintings.
Chapters from the old Guide have been extensively
reworked. New chapters have been added on Spicy
pulps, sports pulps, love pulps, and war-and-aviation
pulps. Also, two new appendices have been created for pulp-fiction
readers who don’t collect the vintage magazines.
One appendix gives basic information on the best
small-press reprint publishers, while the other lists the
most important anthologies of pulp stories in various
genres.
The Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction
is priced at $29.95, which includes shipping
to domestic U.S. buyers. However, Murania Press
is also making the book available at a 20 percent
discount to anybody who purchases it along with a one-year
subscription to Blood ‘n’ Thunder. This special offer
has its own page on the Murania Press site and is available
to those who renew or extend their subscriptions as well.
Don’t miss out on what some fans are already
calling 2013’s must-have book. Visit the Murania
Press web site today at the link below.
414 pages,
7x10, trade paperback
Price: $29.95
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Blood 'N' Thunder / Murania
Press: EDitorial Comments - Now online!
Celebrating The Serial’s Centennial - New!
Final Days For The Special Deal On BNT’s GUIDE TO
PULP FICTION
Happy Holidays From Murania Press
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The Book Cave - New podcast now available online!
Episode 263: The Tom
and Ginger Show
Tom and Ginger Johnson introduce their newest book New Pulp Heroes.
Check out the Book Cave theme song.
Episode
262: Holmes For The Holidays
Episode 261: Brother Bones
Episode 260: Zeppelin Tales
Episode 259: Gantlet Brothers Sold Out
Episode 258: Louise Bohmer
Episode 257: Jeff Deischer and The Dark
of the Moon
Episode 256: Kevin Rau
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CARNACKI: THE NEW ADVENTURES
Now available!
Contents:
CARNACKI: CAPTAIN GAULT’S NEMESIS by William Meikle
MONMOUTH’S GIANTS by Josh Reymolds
A GASLIGHT HORROR by P. V. Ross
CARNACKI AND THE PRESIDENT’S VAMPIRE by Robert
Pohle
THE SPAR: A STORY OF CARNACKI by Fred Blosser
THE BRAES OF THE BLACKSTARR by Robert Jefferson
THE MAGICIAN’S STUDY by Buck Weiss
HOW THEY MET THEMSELVES by Charles R. Rutledge
THE HAUNTING OF TRANQUIL HOUSE by Jim Beard
THE GHOSTS OF KUSKULANG by Amy K. Marshall
A JOB FOR CARNACKI by Robert M. Price
AUDIENCE WITH THE GHOST-FINDER by M. J. Starling
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Sax Rohmer (1883-1959) was a celebrated and prolific British writer
and the creator of Fu Manchu. He was the author of such famous
novels as The Green Eyes of Bast and The Bat Flies Low. What is
not well known, however, is that Rohmer was also a prodigious
author of short stories of weirdness and terror. Over the course of
his career he wrote dozens of stories collected in several volumes that
have now become scarce collector’s items.
This volume presents fifteen stories by Rohmer, taken from such
rare collections as Tales of Secret Egypt and The Haunting of
Low Fennel. They feature Rohmer’s patented mix of exotic settings,
supernaturalism, and adventure. Among them are such famous stories
as “Tchériapin,” a tale of a mad chemist; “The Curse of
a Thousand Kisses,” about a centuries-old curse; “Lord of the Jackals,”
a haunting account of love and death in Egypt; and “The Haunting
of Low Fennel,” a classic haunted house story. Also included is
the full-length novel Brood of the Witch-Queen, one of the finest novels
of Egyptian horror ever published.
This signed limited edition is just 300 copies. The dustjacket
is the work of David Ho, with the interior illustrations by Swiss
artist Gwabryel. At over 500 pages, with twelve stories and one
full-length novel, this is the only edition of Sax Rohmer’s weird
fiction in print.
Limited to 300 copies, each signed by cover artist David
Ho, interior artist Gwabryel, and editor S.T. Joshi.
• Striking full-color, wraparound dustjacket printed on Mohawk Carnival
stock.
• Printed endpapers.
• Full cloth cover with image inset on front board.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.
Cloth: $65
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The Chronicles of Conan Volume 27 - Coming July 22!
by Various Authors, Val Semeiks (Art),
Geof Isherwood (Art), Alfredo Alcala
(Art), George Roussos (Art)
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The Chronicles of King Conan Volume 8
- Coming July 1!
by Various Authors, Judith Hunt (Art),
Mike Manley (Art), Mike Docherty
(Art)
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Clive Cussler: GHOST SHIP (The Numa Files)
- Coming May 27!
by Clive Cussler & Graham Brown
When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers
and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicted
memories. Did he see an old friend and her children drown, or was
the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain,
Kurt doesn’t trust either version of his recollection.
Determined to know the truth, he begins to search for answers,
and soon finds himself descending into a shadowy world of state-sponsored
cybercrime, and uncovering a pattern of vanishing scientists, suspicious
accidents, and a web of human trafficking. With the help of Joe Zavala,
he takes on the sinister organization at the heart of this web, facing
off with them in locations ranging from Monaco to North Korea to the rugged
coasts of Madagascar. But where he will ultimately end up¾even
he could not begin to guess.
Series: The Numa Files (Book 10)
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult
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Clive Cussler: THE BOOTLEGGER (An Isaac
Bell Adventure) - Coming March 4!
by Clive Cussler & Justin Scott
It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in
full swing. When Isaac Bell’s boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn
is shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running
vessel, Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers,
but he doesn’t know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dorn’s
shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the
Russian secret police, it becomes clear that these are no ordinary criminals.
Bell is up against a team of Bolshevik assassins and saboteurs—and they
are intent on overthrowing the government of the United States.
Series: An Isaac Bell Adventure (Book 7)
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult
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Davy Crockett's Almanak of Mystery,
Adventure, and the Wild West -
Now online!
Forgotten Books of 2013 - New!
Pulp Gallery: PLANET STORIES (1946)
- New!
Comic Gallery: Mickey Spillane's MIKE DANGER 1, 2 &
3 (1995) -
New!
Paperback Gallery: 007 by SIGNET
- New!
Pulp Gallery: THE SHADOW 4, 5 & 6 (1931-32)
- New!
Pulp Gallery: AMAZING STORIES 16, 17 & 18 (1927)
Forgotten (and FREE) Race Williams stories: "A Corpse
for a Corpse" by Carroll John Daly
Comic Gallery: Don Newton's PHANTOM (1975-76)
EQMM FEB 2014: "Skyler Hobbs and the Smarter Brother"
WEIRD TALES 31, 32 & 33 (1926)
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Doctor Mabuse - Now
available!
Hollinsworth Productions is excited to present DOCTOR MABUSE,
starring Jerry Lacy, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Lara Parker and Nathan Wilson,
written and directed by Ansel Faraj.
Criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse returns from exile to begin a new reign
of terror, and only young Inspector Carl Lohemann stands in his way,
in this dark psychological thriller.
Inspired by the character created by Norbert Jacques, the notorious
supervillian returns to the screen in this new original tale about the
mysterious 'man behind the curtain'. Dont let him into your mind...
The World Premiere was April 27 2013 at the Historic Village Theater
on Coronado Island, San Diego, CA.
Now, Doctor Mabuse is available on DVD for $19.95 plus
$3.00 shipping + handling.
95 minutes, Not Rated, 16x9 (1.85:1) Widescreen Transfer
of the Theatrical Version
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- "Behind the Scenes of Doctor Mabuse"
a 24 minute featurette detailing
the making of the film
featuring behind the scenes footage,
outtakes, and new interviews
with Writer/Director Ansel Faraj,
and actors Jerry Lacy and Nathan Wilson.
- Deleted Scenes
- "Doctor Mabuse: Etiopomar" The Comic Con 2013 Panel Footage
of the sequel - in theaters Summer 2014.
Please send
payment to:
DARK SHADOWS FESTIVAL
P.O. BOX 92, MAPLEWOOD NJ 07040
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E-texts on the
net this week
The Shadow in Review:
There is no new Shadow review this week.
Pulpgen-Online Pulps:
Now with over 1000 stories online!
"Killers' Row" by Lewis A. Keppen from
SECRET AGENT "X", April, 1938
This time Assistant D. A. Craftwell was one up on his chief. And what
he knew was going to bring curtains to D. A. Monroe. For he knew the
man his chief was dying to send to ... Killers' Row
"Decoy for the Creeping Shadow" by Norman
A. Daniels from 10-STORY DETECTIVE, January, 1943
Sudden death awaited those who attempted to solve the strange demise
of old Jed Darrell. And when fate decreed that Steve Bishop investigate
the mysterious house of disaster, he was greeted with a crimson message
- a message that was a foreword to a tombstone tribute.
"Race With Death" by Marian Gailor Squire
from TEN DETECTIVE ACES, May, 1937
A girl's heart would be broken and a man would die in the electric
chair if Private Detective Patricia Brent did not win her. . . . Race
With Death
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F. Paul Wilson: FEAR CITY - Now
available for pre-order!
F. Paul Wilson concludes his Repairman Jack early years trilogy
(and what could be the last Repairman Jack novel he writes) with FEAR
CITY.
It's February, 1993. When a woman's mutilated body washes up
on an Astoria beach, the unidentifiable corpse is dubbed "The Ditmars
Dahlia." But Jack knows who she is and sets out to learn why
and, most important, who. The killers and those who ordered her
death go on with their lives, never dreaming that anyone would care
about the death of a nobody, unaware of the relentless nemesis they've
set in motion.
FEAR CITY concludes the Repairman Jack Early Years Trilogy. All the
threads of the first two novels weave into a violent tapestry involving
the mob, the super-secret Septimus Order, a high-priced call girl
operation, and the terrorists who first bombed the World Trade Center.
All will be impacted by Jack's quest to avenge the brutal death of a
"nobody."
For the lettered edition only each copy will contain an original (not
a copy) of an outline page, with handwritten corrections and additions,
F. Paul Wilson used for FEAR CITY. This enhances the book's collectibility
as NO two books will be alike (each customer received a different original
outline page).
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Now online!
New on Famous (and
forgotten) Fiction!
December 2013
In Writings
The Flying Stars by G. K. Chesterton
A Christmas-themed story starring Father Brown from the May 20th,
1911 issue of The Saturday Evening Post including the original
illustrations and an introduction by Dan Neyer.
November 2013
In Writings
Valentin Follows a Curious Trail (The Blue Cross) by G.
K. Chesterton.
The first appearance of Father Brown as presented in the July
23, 1910 issue of The Saturday Evening Post with the original
illustrations and an introduction by Dan Neyer.
July - October 2013
In Writings
Just in time (sort of) for Halloween, The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson
- New!
Also, after a great deal of behind-the-scenes work, the
our "instant translation" version of The Murders in the Rue Morgue should now work in mobile
devices! -
New!
Baroness Orczy's armchair
sleuth, the Old Man in the Corner, is featured in
the twelve stories from the 1908 collection, The
Old Man in the Corner, and the rarely reprinted tale,
"The Glasgow Mystery," in weekly installments.
Story introductions, and an overview of the Old
Man, are by Dan Neyer, and Illustrations are included
where they were available.
The Glasgow Mystery
The Mysterious Death In Percy Street
The Birmingham Mystery
The Regent's Park Murder
The Brighton Mystery
The Dublin Mystery
The Theft at the English Provident Bank
The Edinburgh Mystery
The Liverpool Mystery
The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railroad
The York Mystery
The Robbery In Phillimore Terrace
The Fenchurch Street Mystery
Also, don't forget to take a look at the
short biography of the Baroness that appeared in the
April, 1902 issue of The Royal Magazine.
June 2013
In Writings
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The seminal detective tale that introduced
Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin and ushered in the
"modern" detective story. Also included:
all foreign and archaic words and phrases can be viewed
in translation by running your cursor over the
words; a biographical introduction by Dan Neyer and
Bob Gay; and the first illustrations for the tale
from an 1852 book collection.
May 2013
In Writings
No Man's Land
The long short story of Picts and the Scottish
moors that may have had an influence
on Robert E. Howard written by John Buchan.
Introduction by Dan Neyer.
The Death's Head Meteor
The first published story by Neil R. Jones (of
Professor Jameson fame) from the January, 1930
issue of Air Wonder Stories including
the original illustrations and an introduction by Bob
Gay.
April 2013
In Writings
The Good Angel
A reprinting of the 1910 story by P. G. Wodehouse
featuring Keggs, a butler who predates
Wodehouse's Jeeves, with an introduction by Dan
Neyer and the original Strand illustrations
by Chas. Crombie.
Climax for a Ghost Story
The famous short-short story with an exhaustive
exploration into the history of the elusive I. A. Ireland
by Bob Gay.
March 2013
In Writings
The Adventure of The Dying Detective by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle
A complete reprinting of the Holmes tale
that includes the Walter Paget illustrations
and an introduction by Dan Neyer that
discusses the story, its publication history and
Walter Paget
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The complete novel from the 1917 edition that
includes the Schoonover illustrations
placed with their respective chapters and
an introduction by Bob Gay that explores the creation
of the novel and its importance in the history
of science fiction.
In Pictures
Images of John Carter
A sizable collection of images, with background
commentary, that show how various artists
have envisioned John Carter over the years:
in books, comics and film.
February 2013
In Writings
The Ginger King
A rare tale of Inspector Hanaud from the pages
of Strand Magazine.
In Pictures
Two new annotated collections
of Bob's Stuff
Famous (and forgotten) Fiction is a
new site featuring familiar and obscure fiction along
with articles, pictures and essays. In the Writings
section, we have fiction by H. C. Bailey (the first
Reggie Fortune story), Carl Stephenson,
Sinclair Lewis and a large selection
of Kipling, including the complete Mowgli stories
and "The Man Who Would Be King." We've
also added an article about Sleeman's An Account
of Wolves Nurturing Children in Their Dens,
that includes a complete reprinting of the work.
In Comics, there is an overview of Superman
#205 ("The Man Who Destroyed Krypton!") and a
look at a Steve Ditko illustrated story that
bears a strong resemblance to a well-known story
by Carl Stephenson.The Pictures section starts
with a group of collectible (and some not so) items
and is the first of 24 collections.
The site is hoping for subscribers to
keep it going and future plans call
for more stories, more articles and there are
a number of novels we also intend to add
to the mix.
New material will be appearing on the last
Friday of each month (which means we'll have
more new stuff at the end of February).
In a few months, we will also be offering
ebooks: on the site (in PDF) and at Amazon and
B&N in their proprietary formats.
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Fringe #3: SINS OF THE FATHER - Coming August 26!
By Christa Faust
The third novel set in the critically acclaimed Fringe universe.
Author Christa Faust (Money Shot, Choke Hold), winner of the coveted
Scribe Award, is working closely with the television series writers
to reveal secrets and unanswered questions, in novels that will become
formal parts of the series canon. This third novel in the series will
unveil the secrets of Peter Bishop, estranged son of the brilliant scientist
Walter Bishop. Set in the days before he joined the Fringe team, the
story will show Peter skirting the law, yet unable to entirely escape
the fact that he comes from the other universe - a fact he doesn't
yet know!
Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
$7.99
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Fu-Manchu: PRESIDENT FU-MANCHU
- Coming March 4!
by Sax Rohmer
Fu-Manchu journeys to the United States for the first time, and is
the power behind a "League of Good Americans" candidate for the presidency.
From Niagara Falls to the catacombs of NY's Chinatown, Nayland Smith
and federal agent Mark Hepburn seek to stop the Devil Doctor and his
plan to assassinate a presidential candidate – 30 years before The Manchurian
Candidate!
BONUS FEATURE: This volume includes the first of three "lost adventures
of Nayland Smith". "The Mark of the Monkey," follows Smith
and Petrie as they become embroiled in a murder investigation in Dartmoor.
It appeared in Rohmer's 1920 book of short fiction, The Haunting of
Low Fennel, and has only previously been included with the Fu-Manchu
stories in France and Belgium.
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
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Fu-Manchu: THE DRUMS OF FU-MANCHU
- Coming June 3!
by Sax Rohmer
Immediately before World War II, Fu-Manchu decides to kill or control
the world’s war-mongering dictators, to pave the way for his own
plans. The rapid-fire action moves from London to Venice to
Paris, and involves various arcane and scientific forms of torture
and death.
BONUS FEATURE: The Blue Monkey”, the second of three “lost adventures
of Nayland Smith.” It appeared in Collier’s in 1931, then in the
short story collection Tales of East and West.
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
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Gabriel Hunt - Coming March 25!
HUNT AT THE WELL OF ETERNITY by James Reasoner
A blood-stained Confederate flag and
the beautiful woman carrying it put Gabriel Hunt on the
trail of a secret hidden deep in the Central American jungle
- a secret that might just be the legendary Fountain of Youth.
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Gabriel Hunt
- Coming April 29!
HUNT THROUGH THE CRADLE OF FEAR by Charles
Ardai
A discovery deep inside the Great Sphinx
of Egypt reveals a secret that will send Gabriel Hunt racing
to the Greek Isles of Chios and then on to a deadly confrontation
atop Sri Lanka's ancient rock fortress of Sigiriya.
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Gabriel Hunt - Coming May 27!
HUNT AT WORLD'S END by Nicholas Kaufmann
In pursuit of three lost gems that could
unleash an ancient power, Gabriel Hunt travels to Borneo,
Turkey, and the Kalahari Desert with the deadly Cult
of Anatolia hot on his trail.
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Gabriel Hunt - Coming June 24!
HUNT BEYOND THE FROZEN FIRE by Christa Faust
A mission to Antarctica to find a missing
scientist takes a shocking turn when Gabriel Hunt and the
scientist’s beautiful daughter discover a secret valley
and the ruthless civilization that inhabits it.
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Gabriel Hunt - Coming July 24!
HUNT AMONG THE KILLERS OF MEN by David J. Schow
The warlord’s men came to New York to preserve a
terrible secret—and left a dead body in their wake. Now Gabriel Hunt
is on their trail, a path that will take him to the treacherous alleyways
and rooftops of Shanghai and a showdown with a madman out to resurrect
a deadly figure from China’s past...
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Gabriel Hunt - Coming August 24!
HUNT THROUGH NAPOLEON'S WEB by Raymond Benson
Of all the priceless treasures Gabriel Hunt has sought, none means
more to him than the one drawing him to the rugged terrain of Corsica
and the exotic streets of Marrakesh: his own sister’s life. To save her,
Hunt will have to challenge the mind of a tyrant two centuries dead—the
calculating, ingenious Napoleon Bonaparte...
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Girasol Collectables
- January Pulp Replicas!
Girasol Collectables is pleased
to announce three more issues in its ongoing
series of Pulp Replicas.
Terror Tales and Operator 5
are now at six (6) issues per year,
so that those two titles and the Spider
will be completed around the same time
in late 2015.
Girasol will also be tackling the complete
1926 year of Weird Tales over the
next 2 or 3 years, as well as other 1930s
issues of interest.
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Special: All three for $85 ($10 off)
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THE
SPIDER #100
from January 1942 - $35
Featuring "Death and The Spider"
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OPERATOR 5 #39
from May/June 1938 - $35
Featuring "Revolt of the Devil Men"
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SPICY
DETECTIVE #42 from October 1937 -
$25
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Other than Replicas, please confirm
availability first before ordering items such
as pulp magazines or other books.
Paypal payments can be made
to our regular info@girasolcollectables.com
email address.
As always, these reprints are exact
copies including the illustrations,
ads, and back-up stories and have been
printed on off-white paper, staple-bound and
finished off with a high quality reproduction
of the original cover.
The only thing missing is
the smell (alas) and the flaking newsprint.
Email Girasol Collectables at: info@girasolcollectables.com.
A complete listing, along with
other items such as books, fanzines
and of course pulps, can be found on
the Girasol Collectables website
at http://www.girasolcollectables.com/
All payments
must be made in $US payable to Girasol Collectables
and mailed to:
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ALL DETECTIVE MAGAZINE
($25 each postpaid)
#27 January 1935
BLACK MASK MAGAZINE
($35 each postpaid)
April 1920 - First
issue!
June 1,1923 - The rare KKK issue
CIVIL
WAR STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
Spring 1940
DAN
TURNER ($25 each postpaid)
Dan Turner
Hollywood DetectiveNo. 1 (January 1942)
Dan Turner Hollywood Detective
No. 2 (April 1942)
DIME
MYSTERY BOOK ($35 each postpaid)
#1 December
1932
DOCTOR DEATH ($25
each postpaid)
#1 February 1935
#2 March 1935
#3 April 1935
DR. YEN SIN ($35
each postpaid)
#1 May/June 1936
#2 July/August 1936
#3 September/October
1936
EERIE
TALES ($20 eachpostpaid)
#1
July 1941
GOLDEN FLEECE ($25 each postpaid)
#1 October
1938
#2 November 1938
#3 December 1938
#4 January 1939
#5 February 1939
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#8 May 1939
#9 June 1939
HORROR STORIES ($35 each postpaid)
#1 January 1935
#2 February
1935
#5 July 1935
MAGIC CARPET ($25 each postpaid)
#1 January 1933
#2 April 1933
#3 July 1933
#4 October 1933
#5 January 1934
THE MYSTERIOUS WU FANG ($35 each postpaid)
#1 September
1935
#2 October 1935
#3 November 1935
#4 December 1935
#5 January 1936
#6 February 1936
#7 March 1936
MYSTERY
ADVENTURE MAGAZINE ($25 each
postpaid)
November 1936 with a rare Domino Lady
cover appearance
THE OCTOPUS ($35 each postpaid)
February/March 1939
OPERATOR
5 ($35 each postpaid)
#1 The Masked Invasion (April 1934)
#2 The Invisible Empire (May 1934)
#3
The Yellow
Scourge (June 1934)
#4
The Melting
Death (July 1934)
#5
Cavern
of the Damned (August 1934)
#6 Master
of Broken Men (September 1934)
#7 Invasion
of the Dark Legions (October 1934)
#8 The
Green Death Mists (November 1934)
#9 Legions of Starvation (December
1934)
#10 The Red Invader (January 1935)
#11 The League of War Monsters
(February
1935)
#12 The Army of the Dead (March 1935)
#13 March of the Flame
Marauders (April 1935)
#14 Blood Reign of the Dictator
(May 1935)
#15 Invasion of the Yellow Warlords
(June 1935)
#16 Legions of the Death Master
(July 1935)
#17 Hosts of the Flaming Death
(August 1935)
#18 Invasion of the Crimson
Death Cult (September
1935)
#19 Attack of the Blizzard
Men (October 1935)
#20 Scourge of the Invisible
Death (November 1935)
#21 Raiders of the Red Death
(December 1935)
#22 War-Dogs of the Green Destroyer (January
1936)
#23 Rockets From Hell (February
1936)
#24 War Masters from the Orient
(March 1936)
#25 Crimes Reign of Terror (April
1936)
#26 Death's Ragged Army
(June-July 1936)
#27 Patriot's Death Battalion
(August-Sept. 1936)
#28 The Bloody Forty-Five Days (Oct.-Nov. 1936)
#29 America's Plague Battalions
(December 1936)
#30 Liberties Suicide Legion (January
1937)
#31 Seige of the Thousand Patriots (February
1937)
#32 Patriot's Death March (March-April
1937)
#33 Revolt of the Lost Legions (May-June
1937)
#34 Drums of Destruction (July-August
1937)
#35 The Army Without a Country
(Sept-Oct 1937)
#36 The Bloody Frontier (Nov-Dec
1937)
#37 The Coming of the Mongol Hordes (Jan-Feb
1938)
#38 The
Seige that Brought the Black Death (Mar-Apr 1938)
#39 Revolt of the Devil Men (May-June
1938)
ORIENTAL STORIES
($25 each postpaid)
#1 October
/ November 1930
#2
December 1930 / January 1931
#3 February
/ March 1931
#4 Spring
1931
#5 Summer 1931
#6 Autumn
1931
#7 Winter 1932
#8 Spring
1932
#9 Summer 1932
PIRATE STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#1 November 1934
THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE ($25 each postpaid)
#1 February
1933
SAUCY MOVIE TALES ($25
each postpaid)
#3 December
1935 (#1 after a title change)
#4 January
1936 (#2 after a title change)
#5
March 1936
#9 July 1936
#11 September 1936
#17 March
1937
THE SCORPION ($35 each postpaid)
April/May 1939
SOLDIER
OF FORTUNE ($25 each postpaid)
October 1931
SPICY-ADVENTURE
STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#2 November
1934 [#1 after the ashcan]
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November
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1936
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December 1936
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1936
#33 January 1937
#42 October 1937
#76 August 1940
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1935
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1936
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#22
February 1937
#23 March 1937
#26 June 1937
SPICY WESTERN STORIES ($25
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#2 December 1936
#3 January 1937
#4 February 1937
#14 December 1937
THE
SPIDER ($35 each postpaid)
#1 The
Spider Strikes! (October 1933)
#2 The
Wheel of Death (November 1933)
#3 Wings
of the Black Death (December 1933)
#4 City of
Flaming Shadows (January 1934)
#5 Empire
of Doom (February 1934)
#6 Citadel of Hell (March 1934)
#7 Serpent of Destruction (April 1934)
#8 The Mad Horde (May 1934)
#9
Satan's Death Blast (June 1934)
#10 The
Corpse Cargo (July 1934)
#11 Prince of
the Red Looters (August
1934)
#12 Reign of
the Silver Terror (September
1934)
#13 Builders
of the Black Empire (October 1934)
#14 Death's
Crimson Juggernaut (November 1934)
#15
The Red Death Rain (December 1934)
#16 The City Destroyer (January 1935)
#17 The Pain Emperor (February 1935)
#18 The
Flame Master (March 1935)
#19 Slaves of the Crime Master (April 1935)
#20 Reign of the Death Fiddler
(May
1935)
#21 Hordes of
the Red Butcher (June 1935)
#22 Dragon Lord of the Underworld
(July 1935)
#23 Master of the Death Madness
(August
1935)
#24 King of the
Red Killers (September 1935)
#25 Overlord of the Damned (October 1935)
#26 Death Reign
of the Vampire King (November 1935)
#27
Emperor
of the Yellow Death (December 1935)
#28
The Mayor
of Hell (January
1936)
#29 Slaves
of the Murder Syndicate (February 1936)
#30 Green Globes of Death
(March 1936)
#31 The Cholera King (April 1936)
#32 Slaves of the Dragon (May
1936)
#33 Legions of Madness
(June 1936)
#34 Laboratory of the Damned
(July 1936)
#35 Satan's Sightless
Legion (August 1936)
#36 The Coming of the Terror
(September 1936)
#37 The Devil's Death Dwarfs
(October 1936)
#38 City of Dreadful Night
(November 1936)
#39 Reign of the Snake Men
(December 1936)
#40 Dictator of the Damned
(January 1937)
#41 The Mill-Town Massacres
(February 1937)
#42 Satan's Workshop (March
1937)
#43 Scourge of the Yellow
Fangs (April 1937)
#44 The Devil's Pawnbroker
(May 1937)
#45 Voyage of the Coffin Ship
(June 1937)
#46 The Man Who Ruled in
Hell (July 1937)
#47 Slaves of the Black Monarch
(August 1937)
#48 Machine Guns Over the White
House (Sept 1937)
#49 The City That Dared Not
Eat (October 1937)
#50 Master of the Flaming Horde
(November 1937)
#51 Satan's Switchboard (December
1937)
#52 Legion of the Accursed
Light (January 1938)
#53 The City of Lost Men
(February 1938)
#54 The Grey Horde Creeps
(March 1938)
#55 City of Whispering Death (April
1938)
#56 When Thousands Slept in Hell (May
1938)
#57 Satan's Shackles (June 1938)
#58 The Emperor from Hell (July 1938)
#59 The Devil's Candlesticks
(August 1938)
#60 The City That Paid to
Die (September 1938)
#61 The
Spider at Bay (October 1938)
#62 Scourge of the Black
Legions (November 1938)
#63 The Withering Death
(December 1938)
#64 Claws of the Golden Dragon
(January 1939)
#65 The Song of Death (February
1939)
#66 The
Silver Death Rain (March 1939)
#67 Blight of the Blazing
Eye (April 1939)
#68 King of the Fleshless
Legion (May 1939)
#69 Rule
of the Monster Men (June
1939)
#70 The Spider and the Slaves
of Hell (July 1939)
#71 The Spider and the
Fire God (August 1939)
#72 The Corpse Broker (September
1939)
#73 The Spider and the
Eyeless Legion (Oct. 1939)
#74 The Spider
and the Faceless One (Nov. 1939)
#75 Satan's Murder Machines
(December 1939)
#76 The Spider and the
Pain Master (January 1940)
#77 Hell's Sales Manager
(February 1940)
#78 Slaves of the Laughing Death (March 1940)
#79 The Man From
Hell (April 1940)
#80 The Spider and the War Emperor
(May 1940)
#81 Judgement of the Damned (June 1940)
#82 Dictator's Death Merchants
(July 1940)
#83 Pirates
From Hell (August 1940)
#84 Master of the Night-Demons
(Sept. 1940)
#85 The Council of
Evil (October 1940)
#86 The Spider and
his Hobo Army (November 1940)
#87 The Spider
and the Jewels of Hell (Dec.
1940)
#88 Harbor of Nameless
Dead (January 1941)
#89 The Spider and
the Slave Doctor (February
1941)
#90 The Spider and
the Sons of Satan (March
1941)
#91 Slaves of the Burning Blade (April 1941)
#92 The Devil's Paymaster (May 1941)
#93 The Benevolent
Order of Death (June 1941)
#94 Murder's Black Prince (July 1941)
#95 The Spider and
the Scarlet Surgeon (August
1941)
#96 The Spider
and the Deathless One (September1941)
#97 The
Satan's Seven Swordsmen
(October1941)
#98 Volunteer Corpse Brigade
(November1941)
#99 The Crime Laboratory (December 1941)
#100 Death and The Spider (January 1942)
STRANGE DETECTIVE STORIES ($25 each postpaid)
#2 December 1933
STRANGE
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#1 February 1939
STRANGE TALES ($25 each postpaid)
#1 September 1931
#2 November 1931
#3 January 1932
#4 March
1932
#5 June
1932
#6 October 1932
#7 January 1933
TERROR
TALES ($35 each postpaid)
#1 September
1934
#2 October
1934
#3 November
1934
#4 December
1934
#5 January
1935
#6
February 1935
#7 March1935
#8 April 1935
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1935
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June 1935
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#12 August 1935
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#16 December 1935
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#18 February 1936
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#20 April 1936
#21 May 1936
#22 June 1936
#23 July/Aug 1936
#24 Sept-Oct 1936
#25 Nov-Dec 1936
#26 Jan-Feb 1937
#27 March-April 1937
#28 May-June 1937
#29 July-August 1937
#30 September-October 1937
#31 November-December 1937
#32 January-February 1938
#33 March-April 1938
#34 May-June 1938
#35 July-August 1938
#36 September-October 1938
#37 November-December 1938
#38 January-February 1939
#39 March-April 1939
#40 May-June 1939
THRILLING MYSTERY ($25
each postpaid)
#1 October
1935
WEIRD
TALES ($35 each postpaid)
#1 March
1923
#2 April
1923
#3 May1923
#4 June 1923
#5 July/August 1923
#6 September 1923
#7 October
1923
#8 November 1923
#9 December 1923/January
1924
#10 February
1924
#11 March
1924
#12 April
1924
#13
Anniversary Issue May/June/July/24 ($50)
#14 November
1924 - One of the rarest WT's
#15 December 1924
#16 January 1925
#17 February 1925
#18 March 1925
#19 April 1925
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July 1925
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1926
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1928
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1931
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Girasol Collectables
Now available and highly recommended!
Girasol Collectables
is pleased to announce its new series of Pulp
Cover Gallery Editions.
Girasol Collectables is very excited
to announce a new project that has been in the works for
some time!
Girasol is launching a new series of deluxe hardcover editions
which will feature full sets of top quality cover scans
of various pulp titles. These numbered Limited Edition volumes
of 300 copies each are designed to present the cover art
in all its glory. The interior pages are 8.5"x11", full color
throughout, 130+ pages.
Each book in the series will have a mix of full page scans,
size as to the original pulps, as well as some 4 per
page and 6 per page. The exterior is made from bonded leather,
with a small color cover inset on the front of an issue-of-interest
from the interior. There is a brief introduction about
the cover art and artists, as well as a title checklist with issue
number, date, and cover artist if known.
The first volume, which is set for a Hallowe'en 2013 release
is... WEIRD TALES!
The Weird Tales volume has all 279 covers from the original
run of the magazine from 1923 to 1954, plus the
variant cover of #1. We have gone back to the original
pulps to determine accurate cover credits, which includes
2 minor corrections to the Jaffery/Cook Index. The cover
images are the full magazine plus the overhang edges,
nothing has been cropped out. All have been retouched to
maximize the viewing experience!
Please note
that this is not a comprehensive book about the pulp itself, but
rather, a visual reference of the covers.
Pulp Cover Gallery – WEIRD TALES
$125 plus s&h ($10 within
North America, $25 for international)
Release date: October 31, 2013
Please note that the cover
inset may not be exactly as shown in the image at the right.
Pre-release orders are in the mail
and should be arriving soon.
The picture shown has the "Slithering Shadow" cover inset
on the front cover.
Be advised that there are other covers as well, and you
may not receive that cover inset version.
My copy has the "Queen of the Black
Coast" cover.
Girasol Collectables
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The Golden Age - Now online!
FRANK FRAZETTA ~ The Midwood Illustrations - New!
GNOME PRESS CALENDARS ~ 1949-50 ~ Hannes Bok & Edd Cartier
- New!
SHERLOCK HOLMES
GARTH JONES, McClure's Magazine, May/1903
JEFFREY JONES, The Book Of Robert E. Howard #1 &
#2
AVON FANTASY READER, 1947-1952
HANNES BOK, 1914-1964, Digest Covers
BIG LITTLE BOOKS
BERNI WRIGHTSON
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Gotham
Pulp Collectors Club -
January 11, 2013!
Gotham
Pulp Collectors Club is a club for pulp
collectors to meet in the NYC/Metro
area.
It meets the 2nd Saturday of
every month.
Name:
Gotham Pulp Collectors Club
Time: 1-5 PM
Place: Jefferson Market branch of the New
York Public Library. 425 Avenue of the Americas (6th Ave.) near 9th
Street.
Contact:
Mark Halegua at msh@pulps1st.com
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Grimm: THE CHOPPING BLOCK - Coming February 18!
by John Passarella
A cache of bones is found in a shallow grave in local woods...
Meanwhile missing persons cases in Portland seem to be on the increase.
As more bones are discovered, Portland homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt
and his partner Hank Griffin investigate - but there seems to be no
connection between the victims... A brand-new original story set in
the Grimm universe.
Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Titan Books
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Jumpin’ Jungle Cat of Jupiter! It’s another
mega-collection of four complete novels of the “Man
of Tomorrow,” the “Wizard of Science,” the protector of the
Solar System and a menace to evil-doers throughout the
universe: CAPTAIN FUTURE!
Now that Captain Future (aka Dr. Curtis Newton)
and the Futuremen (Grag the robot; Otho the Android;
and Simon Wright, the Living Brain) have traveled through
time in the final story of Volume Two (See “The Lost World
of Time”), can an adventure beyond the Solar System be far
behind? Most assuredly not! The Futuremen board their
trusty space-vessel, The Comet, and blast-off for adventure
in QUEST BEYOND THE STARS! But that’s not all the dangers
our intrepid defenders will face in VOLUME THREE. Up next
is OUTLAWS ON THE MOON! When the peoples of the Solar System
believe the Futuremen to be dead, what better time for the
emissaries of villainy to attempt to break in to Captain Future’s
Secret Moon Base. Following that nail-biting saga, is arguably
the finest of the CAPTAIN FUTURE novels: THE COMET KINGS. Here,
author Hamilton pulls out all the stops as the Futuremen combat
forces from within Halley’s Comet! In the final story of
this volume, PLANETS IN PERIL, the Futuremen face forces from another
dimension that threaten to enslave our entire universe!
As with the previous two volumes of THE COLLECTED
CAPTAIN FUTURE, “Under Observation,” the CAPTAIN
FUTURE letters column is reprinted, and the original
pulp covers and interior illustrations are reproduced
in a generous appendix.
ISBN-13 978-1-893887-74-9
600+ page Hardcover
$40.00
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Haffner Press
Now available!
The Reign of the Robots, The Collected Edmond Hamilton,
Volume Four by Edmond Hamilton
Introduction by Mike Ashley; Cover Art
by Frank R. Paul
Illustrated by Frank R. Paul, H.W. "Wesso"
Wessolowski, Hugh Rankin, Joseph Doolin, Leo
Morey
Following 2011′s THE UNIVERSE WRECKERS,
THE COLLECTED EDMOND HAMILTON, VOLUME THREE, Haffner Press
keeps pouring gasoline on the fire as we announce
the next volume(s) of collected stories from one of the
godfathers of Space Opera.
THE REIGN OF THE ROBOTS, THE COLLECTED EDMOND HAMILTON,
VOLUME FOUR is certainly worth your coppers
as herewith are contained no fewer than 10 unreprinted
stories from WEIRD TALES and/or WONDER STORIES. Alongside
these soon-to-be-presented wonders, you’ll find some of Hamilton’s
classic works such as “The Man Who Evolved” and “A Conquest
of Two Worlds”
Noted scholar and editor, Mike Ashley handles the
introduction for this mighty tome.
As with previous volumes in this series, an appendix
showcasing the original pulp magazine illustrations
also bulks large with obscura including reader’s
letters from the vintage magazines commenting on
these stories, along with editorial correspondence
between Hamilton and his editors.
ISBN-13 978-1-893887-65-7
600+ page Hardcover
$40.00
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Hard Case Crime - Coming soon!
January 2014
THE WRONG QUARRY by Max Allan Collins
- Arriving in book stores January
7!
Cover art by Tyler Jacobson
Quarry doesn’t kill just anybody these days. He
restricts himself to targeting other hitmen, availing
his marked-for-death clients of two services: eliminating the
killers sent after them, and finding out who hired them...and
then removing that problem as well.
So far he’s rid the world of nobody who would be missed.
But this time he finds himself zeroing in on the grieving
family of a missing cheerleader. Does the hitman’s
hitman have the wrong quarry in his sights?
May 2014
BORDERLINE by Lawrence Block
Cover art by Michael Koelsch
THE SCORCHING PULP NOVEL BY
LAWRENCE BLOCK, AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 50 YEARS!
On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico,
five lives are about to collide—with fatal results. You'll
meet
MARTY—the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night
with...
MEG—the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and finds...
LILY—the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a live sex show
by...
CASSIE—the redhead with her own private agenda...
and WEAVER—the madman, the killer with a straight razor in
his pocket, on the run from the police and determined to
go down swinging!
This is MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block at his rawest and
most visceral, a bloody, bawdy, brutal story of passion and
punishment—and of lines that were never meant to be crossed.
First publication ever under the author’s real name!
Volume includes three of Block’s rarest short stories, from
the pages of the pulp magazines of half a century ago
Lawrence Block is one of the most acclaimed living crime
writers, having won every major award in the genre (including
5 Edgar Awards) and been named a Grand Master by the Mystery
Writers of America
Block’s novel A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES is coming out
as a movie with Liam Neeson starring.
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Hermes Press
BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY #4 (of 4)
Arriving
in comic shops January 8!
(Writer/Artist) Howard Chaykin
The adventure that started in Howard Chaykin's ground-breaking
tale of the new Buck Rogers comes to its exciting conclusion!
Buck Rogers, former World War I ace is accidentally suspended
in time only to awaken to a new and different earth, 500
years in the future, fragmented by war and ruled by an
omnipotent force- the Chinese. Now, Buck along with
Colonel Wilma Deering, begin a new fight, to free the United
States! You're in for the ride of your life with this wrap-up
of Chaykin's story arc! Some of the cast won't make it, but
you'll have to read the book to find out the thrill packed, surprising
conclusion to this classic in the making!
7x10, 32 pages, Full Color, $3.99
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ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #43
- Now available!
Henry Patrick Raleigh (1880-1944) by Christopher Raleigh
Victor Kalin—Illustrator (1919-1991) by Rebecca Kalin
Plus book reviews, events and exhibitions, and much more!
Magazine, 80 pages, Full Color, $15.00
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ILLUSTRATORS MAGAZINE #5
- Now available and arriving in comic shops January 8!
Art: Michael Johnson & Various
Illustrators, the art quarterly devoted to the best illustration
published in the world, spotlights the artwork of Mick Brownfield,
Brian Sanders, Derek Eyles, and Anne and Janet Graham Johnstone
in its fifth issue. illustrators quarterly builds into
an essential library of the finest illustrators published
in the world. illustrators guides you through the stories behind
the artists with features written by some of the leading
auuthorities on this important art form. Truly fabulous artwork
abounds in every issue, much of the art taken from scans of the
original work.
Magazine, 8x11, 96 pages, Full Color, SRP: $24.99
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James Rollins: THE KILL SWITCH: A Tucker Wayne
Novel (Sigma Force Novels) - Coming May 13!
by James Rollins & Grant Blackwood
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: William Morrow
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Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens: WRAITH
- Coming July 8!
by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens
In 1995, the CIA made a breakthrough that they hid from the
world because it would change everything in modern science—but some
secrets can't stay hidden. A rogue force has learned how to make disembodied
minds capable of lethal action. Ghosts have been weaponized, and now
a Russian general has infiltrated the U.S. with a squad of "berzerkers"—an
army that can't be killed because they're already dead. Only one person
knew the general's plans, but she died in a car crash. The only person
who can communicate with her is the cop who was at her side when she died—and
now he must race to stop a force that could end life as we know it.
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
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Laurie's Wild West
- Now online!
Happy New Year! - New!
Christmas Covers, Part Three
Christmas Pulp Covers, Part Two
Christmas Pulp Covers, Part One
An Appreciation of PULP FICTIONEERS
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LEGENDERRY: A STEAMPUNK ADVENTURE #1 (OF
7) - Now available!
Writer:Bill Willingham
Art:Sergio Fernandez Davila
Cover Artist(s): Joe Benitez, Johnny Desjardins
We start in the Big City, protected by Vampirella and the
Green Hornet. A scarlet clad woman of mystery rushes into
a bar, pursued by a team of assassins. The terror that breaks
loose there and then will eventually lead (in the issues that follow)
to The Phantom's Jungle, Flash Gordon's space age town of Landing,
battles in the sky with Captain Victory, and so much more, until
finally, we arrive in the Monstrous Lands, protected by... well,
nobody.
Full Color, 32 pages,
$3.99
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LORDS OF MARS #6 (OF 6)
- Arriving in comic
shops January 8!
Writer: Arvid Nelson
Art: Roberto Castro
Cover Artist(s): Alex Ross, Mel Rubi, Jose
Malaga
At last, John Carter and the Ape-man are fighting side-by-side
amidst the aeons-old ruins of Mars. But their enemies,
the evil, treacherous and downright sleazy therns have a few surprises
left for our heroes, including a plan to sterilize half the
planet. A death-defying flight through midair, a bittersweet
reckoning, and a horrific revelation about the true reach of
the therns awaits all those who dare in "The Eye of the Goddess",
the glorious final installment of Lords of Mars!
Full Color, 32 pages,
$3.99, On
sale January 8
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The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention
is a three-day festival held inside the Hunt Valley Wyndham. Here,
you can watch dozens of screenings of vintage movies, world
premiere documentaries, Hollywood celebrities posing for
photos and signing autographs for fans, slide show seminars from
authors and historians, over 200 vendor tables with retro merchandise,
antiques and collectibles and... well, it is a lot of fun.Whether you
have been to other conventions in the past or never attended a convention
before, we recommend you give it a try. You'll discover what people
keep returning year after year. Attendees come from California, Canada,
Seattle, England, Belgium, Florida, Maine... and statistically the
size of the attendance has grown every year. MANC didn’t attract such
a faithful following by accident. Nearing our 10th anniversary, MANC
has offered fans a chance to meet Hollywood actors, visit a drive-in
movie theater, watch old fifties films like Creature from the Black
Lagoon in 3-D, have their picture next to The Blob silicone, watch
Abbott and Costello impersonators perform on stage, and have a great time.
Many of the seminars will be broadcast live from Radio Once More and
you can tune into the station for free at http://radiooncemore.com/
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The New Pulp Heroes - Now online!
Tom Johnson
has started a new Blog for authors who have created
new pulp heroes.
This Site is for essays on The
New Pulp Heroes. It’s about time we catalog
new characters appearing in books and anthologies.
Since Tom does not have time to read everything being
published, he is offering space for legitimate creators
of new pulp characters to send him their data, and
he will post their essays. The only changes Tom will
make to essays will be editing and format. If you wish,
include a jpeg of a book cover or b&w illustration if
you have permission from the artist. By sending Tom your essays,
you are giving me permission to promote and showcase
this data. Eventually, it would be nice to see all
the data published in book format. Essays should be up to 500
words, and include information on MC and back up characters,
creator, title of books, and where the stories can be found.
New Pulp Heroes
- New!
Mask - New!
Champion of Justice and Freedom
-
New!
Merry Christmas
Doctor Mystery
The Armadillo
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PULPWOOD DAYS:
VOLUME 2: LIVES OF THE PULP WRITERS
Edited by John Locke
This unique collection mines the writers’
mags for those rare articles in which pulp writers looked
back on their careers—how they broke in, their
successes and failures, the glories and hardships
of the pulp racket. These are hardboiled writing
stories from the Pulp Era—when the greatest time
in history to sell fiction—the 1920s—was suddenly
followed by one of the worst—the ’30s.
Complementing the twenty pieces are all-new profiles
of the subject authors. Who were they? What
weren’t they telling us? What happened to them
after the pulps died? We meet the writers and
see how their lives were shaped by the times and
the ever-shifting fortunes of the pulps.
From all walks of life, they were as interesting
as the characters they imagined—soldiers and
sailors, a lumberjack, a daredevil aviator, a
WWI ambulance driver, a beauty-contest emcee,
a career criminal, and—why not?—the leader of a
marching band.
Some of these names are remembered today; many
are not. But they all left behind fascinating
and enlightening glimpses into the great
days when the pulps ruled the newsstands. Included
are Arthur J. Burks, Tom Curry, Steve Fisher,
Hapsburg Liebe, Chuck Martin, Harold Masur, Tom Thursday,
Paul Triem, Jean Francis Webb, and many others. Over
100,000 words of pulp history.
6x9-inch perfect bound; 250 pages, $22.00+
Checkout earlier titles by clicking on the link below.
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Perils On
Planet Perils On Planet X - Now online!
Perils On Planet X is a swashbuckling
adventure on a lost planet… join Colonel
Donovan Hawke of Terra as he travels
through time and space to the ancient emerald
world of Xylos – home of vicious reptilian predators,
ruthless strato-pirates, beautiful princesses,
and innumerable fantastic dangers!
Perils On Planet X is high adventure on alien
worlds – classic space opera in the Edgar
Rice Burroughs and Alex Raymond traditions,
revived for a new millennium!
The adventure begins today at the link below!
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Preston & Child: The Lost Island:
A Gideon Crew Novel - Coming August 5!
by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Pulp Crazy
- Now online!
The Shadow/Green
Hornet: Dark Nights
- New!
Pulpfest 2012
– Storytime with the Airship Captain Ron Fortier
- New!
Pulpfest 2012
– The Destiny of Fu Manchu with William Patrick Maynard
Pulpfest
2012 – Walking In Khokarsa with Christopher Paul Carey
Roads by
Seabury Quinn
Johnny
Kelly’s Christmas Ghost by Edwin A. Goewey
The Festival
by H.P. Lovecraft
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Pulp Den - Now online!
New Pulp Heroes - New!
Mask - New!
Phantom Lagoon (Doc Savage) - New!
The Phantom Detective - New!
Pulp Reprints For Trade - New!
Champion of Justice and Freedom - New!
Merry Christmas
Tom's Top Five Kindle Books In 2013
NTD Face Book Ad For Tom's Books
The Bronze Gazette #69
Anti-Heroes
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Pulp Flakes
- Now online!
A new pulp blog on pulp magazines,
authors and their stories, adventure
and detective pulps.
Gordon Ray Young - Author, Cowboy - Autobiography
in Saturday Evening Post, March 7, 1942
- New!
Merry Christmas to you all and a happy New Year
On account of a woman - short story by Theodore Roscoe
The Seal of Jenghis Khan - short story by H. Bedford-Jones
Arthur D. Howden Smith's Swain the Viking in his
last adventure
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Pulp Magazines Project
- Now online!
Publishing legends The Black Mask
(1920), Weird Tales (1923), and Amazing
Stories (1926) are considered so “extremely rare
and valuable” that the U.S. Library of Congress houses
its collection of 277 issues in Washington, D.C.’s
Rare Book and Special Collections Division—along
with the personal libraries of Presidents, medieval and Renaissance
manuscripts, and one of only three known perfect copies
of the Gutenberg Bible in existence. With its latest
addition of 4 issues of The Black Mask (Aug. & Sept.
1920; Dec. 1921; and Apr. 1922), the Pulp Magazines Project
has made all 3 classic titles available together—for the
first time—in high-quality, cover-to-cover digital editions.
Also available at the Pulp Magazines Project,
new issues of the iconic “weird menace” pulp,
Dime Mystery Magazine (Apr. 1938 and Sept. 1946);
Adventure (Jul. 1, 1928; feat. Walt Coburn’s “The
Man Who Hated Himself”); Western Story (Jul.
27, 1940); Detective Story (May 1938; feat.
Zorro-creator Johnston McCulley’s “Thubway Tham’s
Thothial Thecurity”); and histories of both The Black
Mask (E.R. Hagemann; UCLA) and Dime Mystery Magazine (Emily
Sisler; University of West Florida).
The Pulp Magazines
Project is an open-access digital archive dedicated to
the study and preservation of one of the twentieth
century's most influential literary & artistic forms: the
all-fiction pulpwood magazine. The Project also provides information
on the history of this important but long neglected medium,
along with biographies of pulp authors, artists, and their
publishers.
At the heart of the Project's
mission is the archive itself. In summer
2011, it began with a modest library of five
representative first-generation pulp titles from the
early twentieth century. Over time, the archive
will expand, new magazines will be digitized, and
contextual materials added. Eventually, the
archive will feature a broad range of pre-1923
titles, post-1923 titles where copyright has lapsed,
and full volume runs of select titles
from 1896 to 1946.
The Project is dedicated to fostering
ties between communities of collectors, fans,
and academics devoted to pulp magazines, and
will offer opportunities for research
and collaboration to both scholars and
enthusiasts alike. We will provide information on
upcoming conferences and conventions, and
promote new working relationships between academics
and the hundreds of pulp fans and collectors
beyond the college and university.
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Speaking of Murray Leinster…
So, how do you say Leinster?
3 pulp questions: Bill Thom
‘Oriental Stories’ (February/March 1931)
3 pulp questions: Caz Cazedessus
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Pulp Newsgroups
- Now online!
There are numerous pulp newsgroups that are
of potential interest to pulp fans.
Information on several of these groups
and a link to sign up is posted below.
Abraham Merritt: This
group is dedicated to all of the
fiction of ABRAHAM MERRITT. Merritt's
novels, short stories, paperbacks, hardcovers,
pulps, reprints, and any movies based on
these works can all be discussed here. Also, any
artwork from any of the above pertaining
to Merritt's writing can be discussed and displayed.
If interested, questions and statements
about other authors that copied or imitated
Merritt's style can be posted.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ABEMERRITTFANS/
CoverUps: Sharing and
trading of Pulp Fiction covers. Discussion not only
allowed, but encouraged! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cover_Ups/
Doc Con: The
annual Doc Savage Convention gathered
together for the first time on October
24, 1998. The convention also known as Doc
Con is the brainchild of Rob Smalley who together
with Jay Ryan, Paul Cook and Courtney Rogers
have hosted the event each year in Arizona. Traditionally
held the second Saturday of each November, Doc
Con attracts residents from around the country, for
a weekend of planned Doc Savage events
as well as discussions and camaraderie. Follow
along with the planning each year by participating
in this group. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Doc_Con/
Edgar Rice Burroughs Group: This
group is dedicated to the study and appreciation
of one of the greatmasters of literary
adventure, Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950).
Creator of numerous famous characters,
such as Tarzan, Carson Napier, and John
Carter of Mars, and exciting worlds, such
as Venus, Barsoom, and Pellucidar, Burroughs
is widely recognized as one of the fathers of
the Pulp Era and modern heroic fiction. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edgarriceburroughs/
FictionMags: The
purpose of this mailing list is to
discuss the history of fiction
magazines, and to exchange information
about magazines which have carried fiction,
past or present. Particular emphases are
on the "Gaslight" magazines of circa 1880-1914,
the pulp magazines of the first half of the
20th century, the "Big Slick" magazines
of the mid-20th century, the digest-sized magazines
of the 1950s and 1960s -- and any other
areas of magazine publishing which have been important
for fiction. Discussion may cover aspects of
the publishing history of the magazines concerned,
their editors and editorial policies, the
authors they published, and so on.
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/fictionmags/
Flearun: This
group is for fans of all the incarnations
of Doc Savage. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flearun/
H.R. Haggard: This
group is dedicated to one of the greatest
of adventure/fantasy writers ,
H.R. Haggard.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/masterofadventureriderhaggard/
Justice Inc.: This
group is dedicated to the [1940's pulp version]
of Richard Benson and his group of crime
fighting adventurers , Justice Inc. Everything
about this group can be discussed [ comics,
pulps, radio shows, paperbacks, current
news]also if anyone is interested in Paul
Ernst---In the roaring heart of the crucible......
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JUSTICEINC/
Otis Adelbert Kline:
This group is devoted
to Otis Adelbert Kline. His works
in the science fiction, weird and historical
fiction genre and his general biography can
also be discussed here.
Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OTISKLINE/
to join!
Pulp Fiction Uncensored:
is for all fans of Pulp Fiction!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pulp_Fiction_Uncensored/
PulpMags: If you're interested
in the old pulp magazines, this
forum is the place to be. We deal
with OLD pulps only! If you're looking
for something dealing with modern "pulp
fiction" style writing, you'd be bored here.This
moderated list is setup along the lines
of PEAPS, the Pulp Era Amateur Press Society,
and all pulp fans across the world are welcome. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulpMags/
Pulp Swap Group:
Place your swappable pulps and digest, plus
wants, in the file section or individual
messages. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PulpSwap/
REH Comics Group:
This group is dedicated to the characters created by
Robert E Howard that have appeared in comic
book form from Marvel Comics, Dark
Horse Comics, Cross Plains Comics, Dynamite Entertainment
etc. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheREHcomicsgroup/
Vintage Paperbacks:
A forum for readers and collectors of classic paperback
books, primarily from the "vintage era"
of 1939 to 1960 (roughly speaking). Ace Doubles,
Dell Mapbacks, L.A. Bantams, Gold Medal, Avon, Handibooks,
and many more - we cover them all.
Discussion of all genres is welcome and we
particularly want to hear about any rare and
unusual paperbacks or stories *about* paperbacks
that you might be able to share. We discuss the cover
artists, the writers, the publishers, and anyone and
everyone connected with the great world of vintage
paperback books. Read a great old book lately?
Come on in and tell us about it!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VintagePaperbacks/
Western Pulps: This
list is dedicated to the discussion of Western
pulp magazines -- the characters, the authors,
the stories, the paperback reprints, and anything
else connected with Western pulps. Though
the primary emphasis is on pulps, we also
discuss non-pulp Western novels, movies, comics,
etc. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WesternPulps/
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Pulp Shows - Now online!
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Radio
Archives
Will Murray's Pulp Classics
#42
G-8 and His Battle Aces #33 Audiobook
Patrol of the Cloud Crusher by Robert J. Hogan
Read by Nick Santa Maria. Liner Notes by Will Murray
Now available!
Out of war-torn skies soars…G-8
and His Battles Aces! The greatest combat pilot of the War to End All
Wars, G-8’s true name was stricken from all official records. Flying a
supercharged warplane, backed by his wild wingmen, Bull Martin and Nippy
Weston, G-8 fought the most horrific foes the Kaiser could throw at him.
The creation of writer Robert J. Hogan, G-8 and His Battles Aces appeared
in the magazine of that same name for over a decade.
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It was the summer of 1933, and despite the Great Depression, Popular
Publications was booming. Part of their Autumn expansion plans entailed
launching The Spider, and a companion to be aimed at the legions of
readers who drank up fictionalized accounts of World War I Allied
aces versus Imperial Germany’s various bi-winged counts and barons, red
and otherwise.
Popular Publications publisher Harry Steeger hired Hogan and helped
brainstorm the concept. “I can remember that Bob Hogan and I picked ‘G-8’
because G-8 was the hero of his first novel and I added ‘Battle Aces’
so that people would know what type of magazine it was and also because
Battle Aces had been a very successful book,” Steeger recalled.
Envisioning the expected strain on the writer’s imagination a monthly
novel would enact, Steeger and Hogan agreed that the new series would
soon grow stale if they didn’t spice it up with elements of the fantastic.
This recipe ranged from merely super-scientific death rays to unabashedly
supernatural manifestations. Nothing was taboo in G-8. Hogan was a
pioneer of over-the-top plotting generations before the term was coined.
For our newest exciting G-8 release, we have selected Patrol of the
Cloud Crusher, a particularly wild tale torn from the June, 1936 issue.
Hogan outdoes himself by pitting his hero against an astounding threat—titanic
disembodied hands reach out of the clouds to ensnare and crush Allied
aircraft! Even the Master Spy is baffled.
It begins with a ghostly hand that snatched an important clue and vanished!
If that wasn't baffling enough, a patrol flying past a giant cloud
encountered a monster arm whose crushing fingers destroyed their warplanes.
Taking to the skies, G-8 rushes to investigate the so-called Hand of
Providence that had seemingly taken the German side in the war. But
it was one thing to fly into that hell cloud. Quite another to survive
the encounter!
When the Flying Spy and his Battle Aces take on the challenge of the
Patrol of the Cloud Crusher, will they return––or will their own aircraft
be pulverized by the seemingly supernatural power? Herr Doctor Kreuger
strikes again!
Nick Santa Maria narrates this ripping yarn of World War I air-to-air
combat with his usual mastery, while the backup short stories, “The
Flying Hippopotamus” and “The Sky Shark,” are read with aplomb by Milton
Bagby and Roger Price.
Nick DeGregorio composed the music for the G-8 and His Battle Aces
series of audiobooks. 6 hours $23.98 Audio CDs / $11.99 Download.
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Radio Archives
Will Murray's Pulp Classics #20
Unabridged Audiobook
Strange Detective Mysteries When the
Death-Bat Flies
Read by Michael C. Gwynne, Roy
Worley, and Roger Price
Very Special
Offer from Will Murray’s Pulp Classics!
RadioArchives.com
and Will Murray are giving away the downloadable version of the
newly released Strange Detective Mysteries #1 audiobook for
FREE.
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Strange
Detective Mysteries #1 is one of my favorite pulps and I am excited
to produce it as an audiobook with my good friends at Radio Archives.
It leads off with Norvell W. Page's bizarre novelette, "When the
Death-Bat Flies," and includes thrilling stories by Norbert Davis,
Paul Ernst, Arthur Leo Zagat, Wayne Rogers and others. Popular
Publications went all-out to make this 1937 debut issue a winner.
And they succeeded!
If you prefer the Audio CDs to play in your car or home CD player,
the coupon code will subtract the $11.99 price of the
download version from the Audio CDs. That makes the Audio
CDs half price.
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You can download the 6 hour audiobook immediately.
Happy listening
Tom Brown and Will Murray
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Radio Archives
Will Murray's Pulp eBook
Classics
Now available!
The Spider #87: The Spider and the Jewels of Hell
In order to terrorize the tough, patriotic mining town of Minto,
Colorado, The Killer had to order a mass slaughter that would cut the
jugular vein of America’s defenses!... How could Dick Wentworth, half
frozen and wounded, descend into the earth’s depths with any hope of
crushing Hell’s Termites single-handed! Total Pulp Experience. These
exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy
reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every
column of the original pulp magazine. $2.99.
Dime Mystery Magazine: Arthur Leo Zagat Book 2
In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various
names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror
magazines — weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today.
Dime Mystery Magazine was one of the most popular. It came from Popular
Publications, whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the Grand
Guignol theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than
ten years, but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day.
This ebook contains a collection of stories from the pages of Dime Mystery
Magazine, all written by Arthur Leo Zagat, reissued for today’s readers
in electronic format. $2.99.
G-8 and His Battle Aces #33: Patrol of the Cloud Crusher
Not even G-8 could fathom the ungodly powers of the cloud
crusher! A hand that struck from nowhere — a haunting, terrible messenger
of death! And yet the Master Spy’s duty was clear — this menace must
be destroyed, even though a very life be exchanged for the answer to this
horrible curse of the skies! G-8 and his Battle Aces rode the nostalgia
boom ten years after World War I ended. These high-flying exploits were
tall tales of a World War that might have been, featuring monster bats,
German zombies, wolf-men, harpies, Martians, and even tentacled floating
monsters. Most of these monstrosities were the work of Germany’s seemingly
endless supply of mad scientists, chief of whom was G-8’s recurring Nemesis,
Herr Doktor Krueger. G-8 battled Germany’s Halloween shock troops for over
a decade, not ceasing until the magazine folded in the middle of World War
II. G-8 and his Battle Aces return in vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s
readers in electronic format. $2.99.
Double Detective - The Green Lama #8: The Case of the Invisible
Enemy
A hidden, terrible menace to the country brings the Green Lama
to a convention city — there to battle and reveal the instigators of
a gigantic plot to take over the free election of a free people. The
jade-robed Buddhist priest who battled crime as The Green Lama is back!
Conceived in 1939 at the behest of the editors of Munsey Publications
to compete with The Shadow, it was an outlandish concept. While The Shadow
possessed the power to cloud men’s minds after his time in the East, The
Green Lama relied on other, even weirder, powers — including the ability
to become radioactive and electrically shock opponents into submission!
He carried a traditional Tibetan scarf, which he employed to bind
and befuddle opponents, and possessed a knowledge of vulnerable nerve
centers which he put to good use in hand-and-hand combat. Om Mani
Padme Hum! The Green Lama knows! The Green Lama returns in vintage
pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format. $2.99.
99 cent eBook
Singles
Each 99 cent eBook Single contains a single
short story, one of the many amazing tales selected
from the pages of Terror Tales and Rangeland Romances.
These short stories are not included
in any of our other eBooks.
Dime Mystery Magazine: "Between
Two Worlds" by Dorothy Dunn
Life with Sarah was wonderful until she talked with her dead
sister, then measured my throat with a razor! In 1934 a new type of magazine
was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines,
horror-terror magazines — weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived
today. Dime Mystery Magazine was one of the most popular. It came from
Popular Publications, whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the
Grand Guignol theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than
ten years, but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day. This
ebook contains a classic story the pages of Dime Mystery Magazine, reissued
for today’s readers in electronic format. $0.99.
Dime Mystery Magazine: "Blind Date
with the Devil" by John Bender
Marion Carter actually tried to keep her date with Death.
In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the
shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird
menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. Dime Mystery
Magazine was one of the most popular. It came from Popular Publications,
whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the Grand Guignol
theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than ten
years, but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day. This
ebook contains a classic story the pages of Dime Mystery Magazine,
reissued for today’s readers in electronic format. $0.99.
Terror Tales: "Dead Hands Seek My Bride" by Dane Gregory
Ever since Sheila, in girlhood, was saved from the monstrous
attack of Crazy Charlie, her obsession grew — her obsession that
the madman, long dead, was reaching from the grave to take her. When
lovely Connie’s severed head was flung from the night into our cabin
— Sheila knew her time had come... In 1934 a new type of magazine was
born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines,
horror-terror magazines — weird me most popular. It came from Popular
Publications, whose publisher Harry Steeger was inspired by the Grand
Guignol theater of Paris. This breed of pulp story survived less than
ten years, but in that time, they became infamous, even to this day. This
ebook contains a classic story from the pages of Terror Tales magazine,
reissued for today’s readers in electronic format. $0.99.
Rangeland Romances #27: "Owlhoot
Kisses Are Sweetest"
The owlhoot trail is tough on a girl. But lovely Nancy told
her fugitive sweetheart that any other trail would be just as tough
— without him. One of the most popular settings for romance stories was
the old west, where men were men and women were women. As many a swooning
damsel could attest, "There's something about a cowboy." The western
romance became one of the most popular types of magazines sold during
the early and mid-twentieth century. $0.99.
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Robert Ludlum's The Janson Option
- Coming March 18!
by Paul Garrison
Paul Janson-a former Consular Ops legend known as "The Machine"
for his deadly speed and accuracy-has a new mission. Sickened by the
"sanctioned serial killings" ordered by the state department, Janson
has left covert operations and is now a private security consultant.
In partnership with deadly sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid, he only takes
assignments that he believes will lead to the greater good.
When American Synergy Corporation oil executive Kingsman Helms begs
Janson to rescue his wife, Allegra, from Somali pirates, Janson and
Kincaid view it as the perfect opportunity to infiltrate ASC and disrupt
the company's scheme to subvert independent oil-rich African countries
into wholly-owned ASC subsidiaries.
Once on the ground, Janson and Kincaid discover that the pirates may
be the least lethal threat in the violent chaos of anarchic Somalia.
Is Allegra's kidnapping for real, or is she merely a pawn in her
husband's machinations for control of the country? Janson and Kincaid
quickly find themselves embroiled in a bewildering storm of plots
and counterplots, and their fight to survive threatens to disrupt
the entire region, and beyond...
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Rocketeer: Jet Powered Adventures - Coming May 6!
Modern pulp fiction with a retro twist! IDW presents ten original prose
adventures featuring Cliff, Betty, Peevy, and a host of new villains.
From murderous treasure-hunters and marauding Asian sky-pirates, to
ancient Egyptian magicians and haunted mad scientists, the Rocketeer
solves crimes and fights evil in these unique and exciting tales of jet-pack
action and pin-up romance. Set between 1939 and 1946, with such historical
characters as Howard Hughes, Hedy Lamarr, Tarzan's Johnny Weissmuller,
and acclaimed Western writer Zane Grey, to name but a few.
Paperback: 376 pages
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Runner (A Sam Dryden Novel) -
Coming February 18!
by Patrick Lee
Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in
a small town on the coast of Southern California. While out on a run
in the middle of the night, a young girl runs into him on the seaside
boardwalk. Barefoot and terrified, she’s running from a group of heavily
armed men with one clear goal—to kill the fleeing child. After Dryden
helps her evade her pursuers, he learns that the eleven year old, for
as long as she can remember, has been kept in a secret prison by forces
within the government. But she doesn’t know much beyond her own name, Rachel.
She only remembers the past two months of her life—and that she has a skill
that makes her very dangerous to these men and the hidden men in charge.
Dryden, who lost his wife and young daughter in an accident five years
ago, agrees to help her try to unravel her own past and make sense
of it, to protect her from the people who are moving heaven and earth
to find them both. Although Dryden is only one man, he’s a man with the
extraordinary skills and experience—as a Ranger, a Delta, and five
years doing off-the-book black ops with an elite team. But, as he slowly
begins to discover, the highly trained paramilitary forces on their heels
is the only part of the danger they must face. Will Rachel’s own unremembered
past be the most deadly of them all?
Series: A Sam Dryden Novel (Book 1)
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Minotaur Books
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Sequential
Pulp To Publish
Edgar Rice
Burroughs' JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN Graphic Novel
Sequential Pulp
Comics is proud to announce a new graphic novel based
on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic novel, Jungle
Tales of Tarzan.
The one hundred and forty four page
graphic novel will be authorized by ERB, Inc.
through Sequential Pulp’s distribution arrangement
with Dark Horse Comics. The book will be designed as
an anthology collecting the twelve loosely connected
short stories written by Edgar Rice Burroughs
chronicling the life of his most famous character,
Tarzan of the Apes. All the events of the original
work take place within chapter eleven of Tarzan
of the Apes between Tarzan’s avenging of his ape
foster mother’s death and his becoming the leader
of his ape tribe. The original stories ran in Blue
Book magazine from September 1916 through August 1917
prior to the book’s publication in 1919.
Writer Martin Powell will helm the graphic
novel. Powell is well known for his work as the
author of hundreds of science fiction, mystery,
and horror stories. He has worked in the comic book
industry since 1986, writing for Marvel, DC, Malibu,
Caliber, Moonstone, and Disney, among others,
and has been nominated for the coveted Eisner Award.
He is also a respected and award winning author of
children’s books, and frequently contributes prose
for many short story anthologies. He resides in Saint
Paul, MN.
Along with Powell, Sequential Pulp is bringing
a veritable who’s who of exciting illustration talent.
With an amazing cover and specialty art by Daren Bader
to exciting story art by Pablo Marcos, Terry
Beatty, Will Meugniot, Nik Poliwko, Antonio Romero
Olmedo, Mark Wheatley, Diana Leto, Steven E. Gordon,
Lowell Isaac, Tom Floyd and Jamie Chase. Each story
has been matched up with an artist whose passion
and love for Burroughs’ Tarzan and specifically
for the story selected will go a long way towards making
this one highly anticipated book in the Tarzan
canon.
Each story will run twelve pages in
length and the book will be in full color.
Sequential Pulp is planning a standard trade paperback
and a very limited signature deluxe signed edition.
Another
page from Martin Powell's adaptation of
Edgar Rice Burrough's JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN.
Art by Mark Wheatley.
From Sequential Pulp
Comics/Dark Horse. 12 Tales 12 Artists!
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Artwork © Will
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The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger
Archive
Now available!
It includes a special 100-page Club Membership Handbook which
includes a comprehensive list of American sound serials in order of
release date, Secret Codes, Video Lists, and much more, a Membership
Certificate, Squadron Pin, Membership Card, Stickers, a Lone Ranger color
lobby card repro and a beautiful mini-poster of Buster Crabbe and Jean
Rogers!
BASIC MEMBERSHIP Includes:
- A 100 page 6x9" Squadron Member "Pocket Pal" Handbook
which features an unprecedented 35-page list of all US serials, silent
and sound, listed in order of their original release dates, and not just
by year but day and month too which will make this the most accurate
list of released serials ever, especially in relation to their release
order. Directors, principal stars and chapter and studio info are all
also in the list, and titles have been checked for missing "The"s and
other inaccuracies. Serials which exist either complete or of which at
least one chapter exists appear in bold type,and apparently completely-lost
serials in standard. Also, importantly, distinctions have been made between
what titles of the silents were serials with a continuous story and which
were "series" with continuing characters featured in self-contained episodes.
This will be an invaluable reference for serial fans and cinema historians
alike! The Pocket Pal (which may actually become your new best friend)
also includes: Other serial lists; by studio, re-release and feature version
titles, lists of Mystery Heroes and Mystery Villains, etc., Lists of Republic
Home Video serial VHS and laserdisc releases and other video info, room
to add addresses and contact information for your Squadron pals, a 2014
Calendar, Ron "Pa Stark" Stephenson's valuable Serial Vital Statistics
list, reprinted from the SerialFest 2008 Annual, which lists birth and
death dates, cause of death and location for dozens of serial stars and
keys to Secret codes which will be necessary to decode secret messages
that will appear here and on the website.
- Squadron Membership Certificate suitable for framing
- Squadron membership card
- Squadron pin
- 6 Humorous Serial Character Stickers
- A beautiful color art print of Buster Crabbe and Jean
Rogers
- A Color Lobby Card Repro from THE LONE RANGER Chapter
1
- And all rights and privileges due to Squadron Members
including:
Access to Members-Only Pages and Forums (using your Squadron
secret codes from the membership book) at the Squadron Website
Possible discounts on DVDs for sale or other special members-only offers
The knowledge your contribution helps encourage serial restoration
& preservation
THUNDER RIDER Members are those
interested in co-sponsoring, co-producing or producing a Squadron DVD
release, with either a monetary sponsorship, loan or donation of a film
or transfer, or a significant contribution of research or effort which
helps bring a project to completion. More information about how to
become a Thunder Rider will be posted shortly.
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THE SHADOW #21 - Arriving
in comic shops January 8!
Writer: Chris Roberson
Artist: Giovanni Timpano
Covers: Alex Ross, Chris Bolson, Dennis Calero
The Shadow’s search for the secret of the girasol
has lead him from the concrete canyons of New York City,
to the snowy wastes of Siberia, and now to the peaks of the
Himalayas, the fabled Roof of the World. But will he find the
answers he seeks there or only his own death?
Full Color,
32 pages, $3.99, On sale December 18
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The Shadow Fan's
Podcast - Now online!
The Miss Fury/Black Sparrow Caper Continues
The Shadow Fan returns for his 61st episode! This week Barry
reviews The Shadow Now # 3 and Noir # 2. As has been usual with The
Shadow Now, Barry gets a bit heated during his discussion of the series.
Thankfully, The Black Sparrow is around to help cheer him up.
If you love pulp's greatest crimefighter, then this is the podcast
for you!
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The Shadow - Under
the Blue Light -
Now online!
Death About Town - New!
Treasures of Death
Face of Doom
The Chinese Primrose
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Tarzan - In The City of Gold
(Volume 1):
The Complete Burne Hogarth Sundays and
Dailies Library
Coming April 22, 2014!
Burne Hogarth is one of the most famous
artists in the history of comic strips - at the
peak with Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon) and Hal Foster
(Prince Valiant). In 1936 he followed Foster on the massively
popular Tarzan comic strip, and set a new standard for dynamics
and excitement. This is the first of four exclusive volumes
that will collect Hogarth's entire run, beginning with Tarzan
and the Golden City.
Restored and reproduced in an oversized format,
these editions will finally do justice to one of the most
lauded illustrators of all time, whose work has been
out of print for more than a decade.
Details of illustrations:
Full-color restorations of the newspaper strips,
reproduced in the oversized full-page format made popular
by current collections of Prince Valiant and Popeye the
Sailor.
Hardcover: 208 pages
ISBN-10: 1781163170
ISBN-13: 978-1781163177
$39.95
Titan Books
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Tellers of Weird
Tales - Now online!
Terence Hanley has created a blog
in which he researches and writes
about the contributors to Weird Tales magazine
and its companion titles, Oriental
Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine.
The Eternal Triangle: Man, Woman, Monster
- New!
Merry Christmas from Tellers of Weird Tales!
Aalla Zaata
Katherine Yates (?-?)
Hasan Vokine & Henri Decrouet
Theodore
Snow Wood (1877-?)
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Tom Johnson - Now available!
New Pulp
Heroes
NEW PULP HEROES
is now available in a 280-page paperback from FADING SHADOWS, $12.00, plus
$3.99 postage (US).
Tom & Ginger Johnson compile 56 essays on new pulp characters,
plus 2 essays on villains, plus much more data. Also included are new
pulp fiction stories by grandma & grandpa Johnson: “The Mind Master”
by Tom, and “The Origin of Mr. Minus” by Ginger. This will only be
sold through FADING SHADOWS. This is very likely the first of several
books that will chronicle the history of new pulp heroes, and their
creators.
This volume is only
being sold through FADING SHADOWS, so be the first to get your copies.
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Upcoming Modern Hero - Pulp Novels
by Christopher R. Yates
(New publications to the list are
in bold)
Available in book stores January 7!
Dreams of the Golden Age, Carrie Vaughn, Tor,
$25.99
Revolution: Secret World Chronicles Book III, Mercedes
Lackey, et al., Baen, $25.00
The Black Stiletto: Secrets & Lies, Raymond
Benson, Oceanview Publishing, $26.95
Coming soon!
Ex-Purgatory, Peter Clines, Broadway, $14.00, January
14, 2014
Iron Man: Extremis, Marie Javins, Marvel,
$7.99, January 14, 2014
Wild Cards III, ed. George
R.R. Martin, Tor, $15.99, February
11, 2014
The Deadline Man [Max August], Steve
Englehart, Tor, February 15, 2014
Necessary Evil, Ian Tregillis, Tor,
$14.99, March 4, 2014
Captain America: The Death of Captain America,
Larry Hama, Marvel, $24.99, March 18, 2014
Spider-Man: Kraven’s Last Hunt, J.M. DeMatteis, Marvel,
$24.99, April 15, 2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past, Author not announced, Marvel,
$24.99, May 20, 2014
S.C.P.D.: Avenging Amethyst, Keith R.A. DeCandido,
Crossroad Press, $12.99, April
18, 2014
Wild Cards XXII: Lowball, ed.
George R.R. Martin, Tor, $25.00, June
13, 2014
Resistence, Samit Basu, Titan, $14.99, July
08, 2014
Turbulence, Samit Basu, Titan, $7.99, July 09, 2014
Rocket Raccoon & Groot, Marvel, $24.99, July 15, 2014
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William Patrick Maynard
- Now online!
Blogging Dan Barry’s Flash Gordon,
Part Nine
“The Martian Baby” by Dan Barry was serialized by King Features Syndicate
from November 15, 1954 to February 5, 1955.
The story gets underway in another tranquil setting with Flash and
Dale enjoying a picnic in the country (Dale is supporting a very short,
but stylish new haircut) only to have their peaceful interlude disturbed
by a flying saucer that buzzes them so closely they are forced to run
for cover. The saucer lands and reveals its occupant is a Martian baby
crying for its mother.
Read the rest at the links below.
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